Report: Muramasa: The Demon Blade For Vita Has Four New Characters

There may be more to Muramasa: The Demon Blade than that downloadable scenario. Japanese blog Game no Hanashi reports it seems like four new protagonists are introduced in the latest issue of Famitsu.

While scans for Senran Kagura: Shinovido Versus are out, we have not seen the Muramasa scans and cannot verify if this is the case. Game no Hanashi is a reputable source so we’ll take their word for it.

Four new playable characters, possibly? That’s quite the step-up from the original, can’t wait to see what they’ve done to distinguish their play styles.

Göran Isacson

Interesting- I seem to recall someone previously stating that they cut a lot of planned content for the Wii-version. In that case, perhaps they took this chance to include all the things they cut from the other game?

Zonic505

Damn, that’s quite an improvement right there. Wonder if they have their own story or if you randomly play as them in the middle of the 2 stories from the original version. In any case, hearing the number of playable characters has been tripled has me excited.

Lexaus_the_Alchemist

Nice! Good to hear that they may be enhancing the original scope of the game by adding more scenarios and protagonists into the mix. Now to see if they’ll add new gameplay mechanics as well (prolly like 99% chance).

AlexanderPappas

Now this is looking more interesting! I’ll get more but for my buck! Glad to see it’s on vita as well!

AlexanderPappas

Now this is interesting! I’ll get more buy for my buck! It’s gonna be good to see it on that OLED screen!

PoweredByHentai

I know that @z_merquise:disqus would be delighted by this piece of news. :D

Looks like z_merquise was right…that means we’ll probably see some new bosses and enemies from what he and PoweredByHentai showed from the interview

zferolie

I loved this game, but a friend of mine brings up a good point. You don’t really play as the princess at all. You play as a man possessing her body for his own needs. She was pretty bothered by that, and wished the Princess was an actual character and not just a shell for someone else.

Here’s for one of these new characters to be a female character that’s actually female.

XypherCode

Cool. More playable characters the better. This is really one of my fave games of all time. :))
Maybe I’ll play a quick run-thru of the entire game again before this one comes out. xD

DCBlackbird

You know those moments where you see a character that catches your eye and you want to know more about him/her then you end up nerdy about the game yea i just had one of those moments

So friggin’ happy right now! Hopefully more people will give this masterpiece a chance.

Solomon_Kano

I missed this since I didn’t have a Wii, so it was nice enough to hear it was coming to Vita. All of this extra stuff that’s likely the content that Kamitani said they cut from the Wii release is just bonus.

I always like hearing about the stuff left on the cutting room floor, but it’s rare for that stuff to make it into a game without a sequel or DLC. So it’s cool that they’re making it happen for this port.

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